CHINA TOUR – SHANGHAI / BEIJING

30Dec2013

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The first week saw the EM project acting as cultural embassadors to Montreal/Canada, as a part the “China Art Tour” organized by ArtContraste, an initiative building bridges in the arts between Canada and China. The week was split between Shanghai and Beijing; a blitz of meetings, site scouting, and more incredible food than you could shake a stick at, towards a major fall 2014 production … STAY TUNED!

The notoriously off-the-charts smog in Beijing cleared away long enough for one half-day of touristy stuff — the Confucius Temple and Lama Monastery, Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City.

The second week saw the guys icing their cake, brushes in hand, repping EN MASSE with a pair of jams.

The first production winds its way up the stairwell to the second floor of Story Tavern on Laowai Jie (“foreigner street”).

The second, executed at a dusty furniture factory on the outskirts of Shanghai, was hardly dry before it was installed as a backdrop to the cash at the Converse store in iAPM mall on HuaiHai Road, in the heart of Shanghai. That one featured EM’s first Chinese draftee, Deviljax, whose intricate mash-up mask became the focal element of the piece.

A two-week whirlwind of insights and contacts, planting promising seeds for a triumphant return in the coming year!